BMJ 1998. If you have not yet heard of medical informatics then expect to do so repeatedly in the future. As medical knowledge continues to expand rapidly, as the demands for more efficient coordination of patient data become paramount, and as the pressures for improved practice and application of evidence based medicine increase, medical informatics will have increasing influence in our working lives as clinicians.

Medical Records Institute is committed to promoting the development and acceptance of electronic health care.

A series of workshops sent to the Orthopod Mailing list 2005

More and more patients are looking for credible patient information on the Internet and it is now common to meet a patient armed with information who has surfed the web prior to consultation. The aim of this study was to assess a number of websites regarding "orthopaedic patient information.

SNOMED® (the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine) is a product of the College of American Pathologists. It consists of a comprehensive classification of disease.

The purpose of the Society for the Internet in Medicine is to promote the education of the public and medical communities in the application of Internet and related technologies in the fields of medical science, healthcare practice and healthcare management.

A community for measuring health outcomes using the SF (Standard Form) tools. (SF-8, SF-12, SF-36)

What type of files are available and what you need to use them

By the editor of IndiaOrth

Brief overview of orthopaedics on the Internet